"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."

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"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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